Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko

Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko (1892-2 June 1947) was the leader of the short-lived Kronstadt Commune, an anarcho-syndicalist commune that was established on the island of Kronstadt in 1921. He died in prison in 1947.

Biography
Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko was born in 1892 in Nikitenka, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire. He worked as a metalworker in Alexandrovsk (present-day Zaporizhia, Ukraine) before being conscripted into the Imperial Russian Navy in 1913. After the Russian Revolution, Petrichenko and some sailors from the battleship Petropavlovsk, stationed in the Baltics, declared the "Kronstadt Commune" on Kronstadt Island and fought against both the Red Army and the Imperial German Army. After the Kronstadt Rebellion was crushed in 1921, Petrichenko fled to Finland, and he was handed over to the Soviet Union in 1945 for pro-Soviet sympathies. Petrichenko was deported to Vladimir Prison, where he died in 1947.